Brake for vehicles.



No Model.)

Wi h mono G. W. BURTON. BRAKE FDR VEHICLES.

(Application med Se t. 13. 1901.

Patented Aug. I2, I902.

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GEORGE W. BURTON, OF MOREHEAD, KENTUCKY.

BRAKE FOR VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentNo. 706,898, dated August 12, 1902.

Application filed September l3l 1901. $erial No. 75,310. (No model.)

To (LN, 2071,0111, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE. W. BURTON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Morehead, in the county of Rowan and State of Kentucky, have made, a certain new-and useful Invention in Brakes-for Vehicles; and I declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the invention, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specificas.

tion.

Figure 1 is a bottom plan View of my brake as applied. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2, Fig. 1. Fig.3 is a section on the line 3 3, Fig. 2.

The invention relates to brakes for wagons and other vehicles; and it consists in the novel constructions and combinations hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings,C designates the wagon-reach, seated in bearings D D. Below the level of the seats there are provided on the bottom of the rear hounds the bracing transverse abutment-bars E E,which are parallel to each other and are secured to the rear hounds by suitable bolts e e and by the 1ongitudinal straps or brace-bars F F, which ex! tend parallel to the hounds and under the same on each side from the front transverse bar E to the axle-bar A. Journal-seats G G are provided under the rear hounds between the same and the straps or bars F F to receive the journal portions of the transverse doublecrank reel-shaft H. This shaft is provided with an eye-lug Z) in its middle portion, to which is connected the brake-chaink, which when the brake is put in action by means of handle-bars connected to the crank ends a a' ofthe reel-shaft is, wound upon said shaft, ap-' prevented. The brake-bar is thereby held in centralized position.

The back of the brake-bar along its middle portion is provided with a wear-plate 011,

against which work the ends of the curved plate-sprin g N, which is secured to the rear transverse bar Eand serves to hold the brakebar in its forward or free position against the front transverse bar E.

The ends of the spring N bear against the end portions of the brake-beam, whereby the action of the end portions of the beam is equalized.

The bottom of the brake-bar is also provided with a wear-plate P, having the middle lugs 19 p, which are perforated to receive the *eyebolt R, having a nut r on its forward end,

which is threaded sufficiently to provide for some adjustment in regard to the chain should it be necessary. The brake-chain S is connected by one end to the eve-lug b of the reelshaft and by its otherend to the eyebolt R.

The brake-beam is held in normal position by means-0f the spring device N. When the winding-shaft is turned by pressing one of thebrake-handles, the-chain is wound cenmovement by the rear bar E, the plate-spring N being in'this case straightened out against said bar.

Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

In a vehicle-brake, the combination. with the rear hounds, the two bracing transverse bars thereof, and the braces connecting said bars, and forming guideways between the same and the hounds, of the brake-beam having movement in said guideways, its grooved plate upon one side thereof, and engaging the wagon tongue or pole for prevention of l at about the central portion thereof, and the lateral movement, the perforated lugs upon the opposite side of said beam centrally of the length thereof, the curved plate-spring having a bearing at its middle portion against one of said transverse bars, to which it is secured, and at its ends against the end portions of the brake-beam to equalize the appli cation thereof, the transverse winding-shaft, its bearings supported by said hounds, and the chain connected by one end to said shaft adjustable screw connection with said lugs at its opposite end portion, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE w. BURTON.

WVitnesses:

A. W. VINToN, W. O. REEVES. 

